Mainland China attacking its own traditional way of life.

I enjoyed professor’s Yunxiang Yan lecture. It was fascinating to hear his explanations and comparisons of our Western ideology to the Traditional Chinese ideology. The part that still resonates in my head, is when he said that China is the only country in the world that has attacked its own traditional system of familism and tried to destroy a traditional family system that had endured thousands of years.

I loved his analogy of how in traditional Chinese ideology, a person is just like a tiny part in the middle of a long rope. Not a full person, just a connecting piece of a very long line. The person is there to ensure that the ancestors continue to have descendants.